News Bulletin of The Institution of Surveyors Victoria ABN 83 004 046 860
Traverse 333 December 2023 Patron: Her Excellency Professor the Honourable Margaret Gardner AC
Welcome to the Sesquicentenary! 150 Years of ISV 1874 - 2024
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In this issue
The Institution of Surveyors Victoria 206/370 St Kilda Road, Melbourne VIC 3004 T (03) 9326 9227 E isv@isvic.org.au W www.surveying.org.au
Celebrating the 150th Anniversary has finally arrived and the Sesquicentenary committee is working on a range of ways in which we can celebrate the historic year ahead.
Articles and photographs are welcomed for consideration
In this issue with our founding President on the cover, we also celebrate our newly elected President, Leon Wilson with his contribution From the President. We showcase some of the events in the year ahead, begin to demonstrate our souvenir timeline which will be published in the new year, demonstrating the remarkable contribution the ISV has made to surveying in this State, and celebrate some of the recent events on the busy approach to Christmas.
Editor: Ian Thomas ithomas@isvic.org.au
It's a full calendar celebrating our achievements in 2024 and you will find that inside this issue too!
Creative: Pascal Simonetta admin@isvic.org.au
A very Merry Christmas to all our members across Victoria and congratulations on making it to 150 years, making this one of the oldest professional bodies in the Country!
Traverse is published by the Institution of Surveyors Victoria
Cover: This 1875 portrait by Thomas Flintoff is of ISV’s founding President, the remarkable surveyor Robert Lewis John Ellery 1827 – 1908 and still proudly hangs at the ISV Office. Physician, Government Astronomer, founder and President of the Royal Society of Victoria, Melbourne University Council, Trustee of the Public Library and Lieutenant Colonel of the Submarine Mining Engineers, Ellery famously began the Geodetic and Trigonometrical Survey of Victoria with the Victorian Geodetic Baseline Werribee South Base in 1860. The views expressed in Traverse are not necessarily endorsed by The Institution of Surveyors Victoria. No responsibility is accepted by the publishers, the editor or printer for the accuracy of information contained in the text or advertisements. Advertisements must comply with the relevant provisions of the Trade Practices Act 1974. Responsibility for compliance with the Act rests with the person, company, or advertising agency submitting the advertisement. Neither the publisher nor the editor accepts responsibility for advertisements. The publication is produced by The Institution of Surveyors Victoria with the understanding that is not engaged in providing legal or other professional services. If legal or other expert assistance is required, a competent professional person should be engaged.
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Ian Thomas Executive Officer ISV
Contents
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02 From the President 03 Upcoming Events 07 Membership - Conferral Ceremony and Reception 09 ISV Board 10 Sustainability - Talking Tactics 12 Calendar of Events 14 Message from the Governor 15 Recent Events - Christmas Seminar 16 Newly Registered Surveyors 17 Government Update 19 History - Clement Hodgkinson 22 Tributes - William Napier Cameron
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From the President
and there are likely opportunities for ISV members to support the Pilot and provide our expertise, so the program is successful in its aim to reduce the length of time required to become a Licensed Surveyor. The ISV Board is currently finalising the Strategic Plan 2024 – 2027 which will be available in the New Year.
Leon Wilson, President ISV
As the newly elected President of ISV, I would firstly like to thank the outgoing President Tom Champion, who at this time last year stepped up to become President for a second time, and has led the ISV through a busy and challenging year. I know the ISV Board has been grateful for his leadership, and his passionate commitment which is ongoing. The last couple of months have been busy with ISV hosting the Conferral Reception for newly licensed surveyors following the Conferral Ceremony with the Surveyors Registration Board of Victoria (SRBV). Importantly, we have now received the request from SRBV for ISV to nominate three Licensed Surveyors for the two possible positions as representatives on the SRBV. Feedback regarding the Survey Coordination Regulations 2014 Sunset Review was collated from ISV members and provided to SRBV. I believe this review will be completed by May of next year when Eddie Cichocki the Deputy Surveyor General will provide a presentation on this subject. I attended the briefing for the SRBV Licensing Pathway Pilot held on 7 December 2023. Rachel Musgrave-Evans has been appointed to direct this Pilot
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Our focus over the next three years will be in offering value and services to members, attracting new members, increased opportunities for both younger and more senior members to serve or contribute through the following pillars of Services, Growth, Knowledge, Engagement, Sustainability and Community, and we look forward to the publication and sharing of this document with our members. Playing to our strengths of upholding the Institution’s aims and code of ethics, exchange of knowledge, career advancement for members and advice to Government keep us proudly independent, and mentorship and professional development are key to this. There can be no doubt that the Sesquicentenary celebrations form the centrepiece for the year ahead. Events such as the ISV Sesquicentenary Gala Dinner will rely on the passion of the Surveying Profession to support this event, the date of which will be announced once our new Patron, the Governor of Victoria, her excellency Margaret Elaine Gardner provides her availability. Proudly connecting our members with the contributions of our past, and the wider community, these celebrations will provide a better understanding of the importance of the role of the surveying profession in their daily lives. Our member events are a cornerstone of our organisation’s service offering to members.
Support of these events across the State in our 150th year will be critical for our success, raising both the profile of surveying and celebrating this significant milestone. The Sesquicentenary Committee has been committed to defining the scope and objectives of our planned activities and the many ways in which we will be able to celebrate this milestone and commemorate the achievements of surveyors across Victoria and we look forward to sharing the program in the New Year. The Summer Seminar in February 2024 will be the first event to start the year and I look forward to seeing everyone there to share their experiences and knowledge. The Regional Conference is at the Swan Hill Resort beginning on 26 April next year so please note this in your calendars. Like all parts of our lives there is too much to do with not enough time or resources to do everything at once. The ISV records are being transferred to a new Customer Relationship Management system and associated Member Portal. This will include a refreshed web site for ISV which is very much out of date for such an important year ahead. There are challenges in terms of the ISV Board remaining responsible for all the work. It would be great to hear from those willing to contribute to the opportunities ISV provide, especially in terms of sub-committees and sharing knowledge. Equally, please reach out to myself with any suggestions for areas where we can improve as an organisation and those that are working well. I would like to encourage discourse so that members can give back as well as seek value. I wish you all the best for a merry and joyous Christmas and a safe New Year. Leon Wilson, President ISV
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UPCOMING EVENTS ISV SEMINAR 150 Stamford Inn, Rowville 23 February 2024 @ 12.00pm
SAVE THE DATE!
ISV GOLF DAY
Celebrates 150 Years at Northern Golf Club 1 MARCH 2024
ISV Sesquicentenary Timeline Project 1803 Acting Surveyor General Charles Grimes explores what becomes the Maribyrnong River to the West and Dights Falls to the East
1837 Surveyor General for the Colony of NSW, Robert Hoddle marked out what was to become the Melbourne CBD and the Hoddle Grid
1847 - 1850 Pioneer Surveyors Henry Wade and Edward White survey what is to become Victoria's border with South Australia
1835 Of the future Melbourne, John Batman famously noted in his diary 8 June "This will be the place for a village." Page 3
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UPCOMING EVENTS ISV SWAN HILL REGIONAL CONFERENCE Celebrating 150 years - Swan Hill Resort 26 – 28 April 2024 Accommodation available now at conference rate $152 per room by calling Swan Hill Resort now on 03 5032 2726
TURNING 150 – ISV Gippsland Group Celebrates MARCH 2024 Combining historic site visit, mini seminar and dinner Details soon
7 May 1874 First minuted meeting of The Institution of Surveyors Victoria. Robert Ellery President 1851 The Founding of the Colony of Victoria 1901 Federation - Victoria becomes a State in the Commonwealth of Australia
1851 Gold Rush Ballarat If you would like to contribute to the ISV Sesquicentenary Timeline Project 1874 – 2024 for publication next year, please send your surveying milestones to Leon Wilson, Chair Sesquicentenary committee via email with Timeline in the subject: isv@isvic.org.au Page 4
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ISV Golf Day at the 100 Year Mark!
Save the Date for our 150th! Page 5
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Friday 1 March, historic Northern Golf Club Page 6
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Conferral Ceremony and Reception A traditional idea receives a great reception!
Decades have passed since the days when the demand for qualifications and a Licensing process was instigated by the Institution of Surveyors Victoria, placing us inextricably close to a candidate’s advancement through the profession and the automatic welcome into the ISV membership. Government authority appropriately leads this charge in the modern era and somehow our presence at what would have been assumed once as our conferral ceremony, has been somewhat diminished. That is until now.
Along with ISV Executive Officer, Ian Thomas, and the ISV Board who immediately saw the possible benefits, including acting as an event supplier, they teamed with SRBV Executive Officer Amy Ryan and Chair of SRBV, Surveyor General Craig Sandy and met weekly to work on the project which was a great success.
beneficial moment for all, and the ISV are hopeful of a future in this very special event space.
Having our presence felt once more at this important juncture for Licensed Surveyors reconnects closer to the beginning of their professional journey, enabling us to demonstrate the importance of a strong relationship with a Professional Body Within the comfortable surrounds of the modern Melbourne Connect Forum like ISV, focused on the individual Licensed Surveyor, wherever their space at University of Melbourne, career takes them. conferees and their friends and With the SRBV facing a post covid absence of families moved in a relaxed and their Conferral Ceremony with refreshments, convivial way from the ceremony, through the complexities of a major and a very large number of newly Licensed photography experience into an Surveyors waiting in the wings, the SRBV adjoining ticketed reception held by agreed to partner with ISV once more, largely driven by the energy and ideas of ISV the ISV, where Riley Ulbrich delivered important messaging regarding Director and Government Liaison, Riley membership and our role as an Ulbrich, himself a member of a yet to be Institution. It was a proud and conferred cohort. Page 7
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LEFT: ISV Director and SRBV Board member Peter Sullivan stepped in to MC on behalf of the Surveyor-General and was delighted to present Eleanore Doolan with the Albert Craven Award.
ABOVE: Driving force behind ISV's role in delivering the event for the SRBV, Riley Ulbrich, himself a conferee, was proud to remind those newly Licensed to consider the lifetime of benefits that membership of the ISV could offer.
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The ISV Board of Directors and Representatives 2023 - 2024 President Leon Wilson Chair of Finance and Audit Committee Mark Sargent Chair of CPED Committee Heath McMahon Chair of Diversity and Inclusion committee/ Education Liaison Baden Coates Surveyors Registration Board of Victoria Representatives Peter Sullivan and Jason Hay CSV Representative Rohan Bakker Surveying Task Force Representatives Evan Webster and Kathryn Kennedy Government Liaison/Traverse Riley Ulbrich Standards Committee Representative Alan Timke Tertiary Student Representatives Leon Hill (RMIT) Jonathan Tzelepis (University of Melbourne)
Regional Group Representatives: Glenelg Grampians Group Clint Joseph Gippsland Group Jonathan Neilson North Central Group Linda Porter Murray Group Paul Smithwick Executive Officer Ian Thomas Administration Assistant Pascal Simonetta ISV Office Suite 206, 370 St Kilda Road, Melbourne Victoria 3004 Telephone: (03) 9326 9227 Email: isv@isvic.org.au www.surveying.org.au
Some very familiar happy faces here, led by Fellow and long-standing member of the Institution of Surveyors Victoria, Ed Young (seen here centre front in red). This group of senior surveyors, which has a substantial following not all seen here on the day, meet up regularly for a social catch-up, to solve the problems of the world, embrace surveying history and uphold values and shared knowledge and the ISV congratulates them for doing so. With passion and in good spirits, long may this group continue. Page 9
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Talking Tactics – ISV Strategy moving forward profession to the wider community and at all levels of government, our latest Strategic Plan expands on these pillars with suitable maturity and draws heavily from member feedback and the ISV 2023 Benchmarking Survey.
ISV Board members enjoyed getting together for a Strategic Planning Day late in the year to create the new ISV Strategic Plan 2024 – 2027 which will soon be reviewed by the Board. The four pillars of the previous Strategic Plan served us well throughout the challenges of a Covid environment: Membership, Community, Education and Sustainability, but in order for the ISV to achieve its Mission, that is to promote professional development to our members throughout their professional lives, and promote and represent the surveying
Our focus over the next three years will be in offering value and services to members, attracting new members, increased opportunities for both younger and more senior members to serve or contribute and it is hoped that this will be through the following revised pillars of Services, Growth, Knowledge, Engagement, Sustainability and Community and we look forward to the publication and sharing of this document with our members in the New Year. Playing to our strengths of upholding the Institution’s aims and code of ethics, exchange of knowledge, career advancement for members and advice to Government keep us proudly independent, and mentorship and professional development are key to this, along with revenue generation and being adequately resourced. The reintroduction of Board member portfolios and encouraging members to take part in committees and special projects will be central to the success of this new Strategic Plan.
Director in Profile - Leon Wilson
Leon commenced his working life with VicRoads and was there for 14 years before moving to Max Braid Surveyors in Private industry for 5 years. Leon has been at the City of Melbourne for the last 19 years, firstly as part of the Planning and Building where he processed subdivision applications and provided various advice relating to roads and land tenure for both freehold and crown land. Leon still provides this advice and is now part of the Spatial Team which updates Council property records and other spatial data for use within Council and to support VicMap.
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2024 ISV Calendar January
February Wed 07 ISV Board Meeting Fri 23 ISV Seminar 150 Stamford Inn Rowville
April Wed 03 ISV Board Meeting Fri 26/27/28 150th Regional Conference Swan Hill – Swan Hill Resort, Swan Hill TBA ISV Rooftop Student-lead Seminar
July Wed 03 ISV Board Meeting Fri 26 ISV Survey Expo – 21st Century Institution – Encore St Kilda TBA Glenelg Grampians Seminar & Networking
May Wed 01 ISV Board Meeting Fri 24 May ISV/CSV Joint Seminar – Mooney Valley Racecourse TBA ISV Sesquicentenary Dinner
August Wed 07 ISV Board Meeting Tues 27 Colin Middleton Luncheon – Mitre Tavern Melbourne
March Fri 01 ISV Golf Day – Northern Golf
Club Glenroy Wed 06 ISV Board Meeting Thurs 07 TBC Turning 150 - ISV Gippsland Group Celebrates – Local history celebration, Mini-Seminar + Dinner Mon 11 Labour Day Public Holiday
June Wed 05 ISV Board Meeting Mon 10 King’s Birthday Public Holiday Thurs 20 TBC Turning 150 – ISV Murray Group Celebrates - Local history celebration, Mini-Seminar + Dinner
September Wed 04 ISV Board Meeting TBC Turning 150 – ISV Glenelg Grampians Group Celebrates Local history celebration, MiniSeminar + Dinner
October
November
December
Wed 02 ISV Board Meeting TBA ISV/CSV LRS Joint Webinar TBA ISV Annual General Meeting TBC SRBV/ISV Conferral Reception
Wed 06 ISV Board Meeting Thurs 14 TBC Turning 150 – ISV North Central Group Celebrates Kilmore - Local history celebration, Mini-Seminar + Dinner
Wed 04 ISV Board Meeting TBA ISV Christmas Seminar & Networking Manningham Club Bulleen
Gold Sustaining Member:
Silver Sustaining Members:
Proudly Supported by: Platinum Sustaining Member:
General Sustaining Members:
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Message from the Governor
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Christmas Seminar - The tail end of a busy year
The final seminar of the year held at the Manningham Club in Bulleen was a diverse and interesting program which began with a welcome speech and update from newly elected President of ISV Leon Wilson LS encouraging member involvement on a number of levels, but particularly the strengths and opportunities that lay ahead for them with the ISV 150th Anniversary celebrations. The Keynote address from Marc Peterson, Director Major Road Projects Victoria followed, exploring current projects and the future pipeline for Major Road Projects in Victoria. Surveyors were alert to his explanations of land tenure processes, which offered opportunities for our members to provide feedback and to pursue opportunities with Marc on a number of different levels. Along with excellent updates from our key Sustaining Members, UPG and CR Kennedy, a detailed presentation from Darren Page 15
Bennett from Listech on ePlan software was timely for some. Newly elected ISV Director Baden Coates, now Chair of our Diversity and Inclusion committee, presented for the first time on his ongoing education initiative inspiring secondary level STEM students to the surveying profession – Girl Power Program. There were plenty of questions from the floor following an excellent opportunity for members to hear from Colin Hall LS and Senior Surveyor with SGV, lead a panel on the topic of the Rural Cadastral Project Interview, which included Chris Spall, Examiner with SGV, and two current PTA candidates, Kade Ebert and Dan Martin who spoke honestly about their experiences and learnings. It was in the final hour that the program hit its straps. Saving the best ‘til last, with his cautionary tales and inspirational delivery, was surveying
impresario Rob Steel OAM LS FISV, who brought together two very wise sessions which held the audience right to the end of the FPET year. One with Dr Jane Cooke, National Technical Support Manager with CR Kennedy, exploring specific and mischievous GNSS field experiences that he had encountered, and then on the subject of A pocket Full of Old Law, a panel discussion with Greg Thompson LS , Operations Manager at St Quentin, and Leon Wilson LS City if Melbourne and newly elected ISV President, both extremely well versed on those small pockets of Old Law titles largely undealt with in the modern Cadastral map, and which pop up with surprising regularity across the State. Networking and drinks followed which had many lingering to further all the topics of the day.
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Newly Registered Licensed Surveyors The ISV would like to congratulate the following newly licensed surveyors who have recently achieved registration after completing their Professional Training agreements: Glenn Reid
Paul Munoz
David Forster
Jim McGovern
Cameron Mitchell
Introducing New Member, Morgan Granger Driven by a commitment to shaping Victoria’s infrastructure and preserving its surveying heritage, Morgan is excited to contribute to the ISV Sesquicentenary Committee. With over four years’ experience leading the surveying program at the Level Crossing Removal Project, Morgan has contributed to the removal of 74 level crossings across Melbourne. Licensed since March 2022, this year Morgan had the privilege of being formally inducted as a licenced surveyor at the combined 2021, 22 and 23 conferral ceremony along with a cohort of esteemed and accomplished colleagues. ISV Director and SRBV Representative Peter Sullivan presented Morgan Granger with his License at the recent SRBV Conferral Ceremony.
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Government Update
IMPORTANT NOTICE SRBV Membership Nominations - Expressions of Interest As the professional body representing the majority of Licensed Surveyors in Victoria, the ISV has received official request from the Surveyors Registration Board of Victoria (SRBV) to nominate three Licensed Surveyors for appointment to the new Board that will commence its term on 1st May 2024. In accordance with s.47(2)(b) of the Surveying Act 2004, two members on the SRBV must be Licensed Surveyors who: 1. Are not persons employed under Part 3 of the Public Administration Act 2004 and 2. Are selected by the Minister from a panel of 3 names submitted by the professional body representing the majority of licensed surveyors. Membership of the Board is an historic and rewarding role, provides independent insight to the responsibilities and function of the Board, and serves the surveying profession at the highest level in a variety of ways. The SRBV is a warm and welcoming environment and like the ISV embraces diversity and balance in all respects. If you are interested in applying for membership of the SRBV, please submit an Expression of Interest by emailing ISV Executive Officer, Ian Thomas: ithomas@isvic.org.au as soon as possible over January. To assist with your application, you will be provided with further information detailing the description, opportunities, and responsibilities of SRBV membership. Applications are to be provided to ISV by 26th January 2024.
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History - Clement Hodgkinson witnessed and the natural history of the areas he had explored, such as this description of rainforest:"... the peculiar appearance of the brush is principally caused by the countless species of creepers, wild vines, and parasitical plants of singular conformation, which, interlaced and intertwined in inextricable confusion, bind and weave together the trees almost to their summits, and hang in rich and elegant flowering festoons from the highest branches. The luxuriant and vigorous character of the brush, on alluvial land, in the northern part of the territory of New South Wales, cannot be surpassed in any tropical region. When this brushland is cleared, and cultivated, its fertility seems inexhaustible ..." Hodgkinson concluded the chapter on his encounter with the Aborigines with the following observation: "... indeed I think that all endeavours to make them adopt more settled habits will be useless, for what great inducement does the monotonous and toilsome existence of the labouring classes in civilized communities offer, to make the savage abandon his independent and careless life, diversified by the exciting occupations of hunting, fighting, and dancing."
Surveyors have been multi-skilled since they arrived in Australia assisting in discovering new areas and then laying the foundation for the future development and amenity of the country for future generations. Clement Hodgkinson 5th Victoria Surveyor General demonstrated that. By Ed Young Fellow ISV Clement Hodgkinson (born 1818 and died 5 September 1893) was a notable English naturalist, explorer and surveyor of Australia. He was Victorian Assistant Commissioner of Crown Lands and Survey from 1861 to 1874. Exploration in New South Wales Qualified as a civil engineer, Hodgkinson left England in 1839 intending to become a pastoralist. After his arrival,
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he bought into a cattle station near Kempsey, north of Sydney. A year later, the New South Wales colonial government hired Hodgkinson to survey and explore the northeastern areas of New South Wales as far as Moreton Bay. In March 1841 he explored the upper reaches of the Nambucca and Bellinger rivers, becoming in the process the first European to make contact with the local Aborigines there. He then followed the Macleay, Clarence, Hastings, Richmond and Tweed river valleys, visiting Port Macquarie, Brisbane and Moreton Bay.
He described the Bellinger River valley as "contain[ing] the finest cedar and rosewood I have ever seen" and noted the fierce defence local Aboriginal tribes would put up against encroachment from timber cutters. When Hodgkinson later returned to the valley, members of the Yarrahappinni accompanied him to assure the locals that his intentions were benign. Hodgkinson must have appreciated his first stint exploring Australia. In the 1850s he again journeyed from England to the young colony of Victoria. In 1854 his wife, Amelia Diana Hunt, gave birth to a son. A year later his first wife was dead at the age of 26. In 1857 he married Anne Smart and they subsequently had several children, although not without the sadness of the death of a child.
In 1852, Hodgkinson joined the Survey Office as a draftsman and was appointed as District Surveyor for Victoria in 1855. [1] As part of his After returning to England, he published surveying duties, the township of Warrandyte an account of his explorations, Australia, was laid out in 1856. In 1857-1858 he was the from Port Macquarie to Moreton Bay, in Surveyor General of Victoria. (But he was the 1845. In it he included observations 3rd Surveyor General that could be considered a about the Aboriginal tribal life he had surveyor).
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Landscape design of Melbourne's gardens St Vincent Gardens in Albert Park, now a nationally significant park, is an example of nineteenth century residential development around a landscaped square which Hodgkinson initially designed in 1857 and developed in 1864-1870. In 1860 responsibility for the government reserves was exercised by Clement Hodgkinson, the new administrative head of the Lands Department, who took a detailed interest in the planning and development of the city parks, including Fitzroy Gardens. This started an extensive period of landscape design of Melbourne's parks and gardens including: • Prepared a plan in 1862 for the Flagstaff gardens. • Designed and oversaw the development of the Fitzroy Gardens. • Queen Victoria provided the grant of land in 1865 for the Edinburgh gardens, in North Fitzroy, which were subsequently laid out by Clement Hodgkinson. • Designed the Treasury Gardens in 1867 as a pattern of diagonally crossing paths lined with trees, to emulate the Union Jack. Willow trees were planted around an ornamental pond. • Awarded the task of designing the St Kilda recreational reserve, known today as Alma Park in 1867. • Made minor changes to Edward La Trobe Bateman's design of the Carlton Gardens after the colonial government resumed control of the site from the Melbourne City Council. Soon afterwards, the gardens were drastically redesigned for the 1880 Melbourne International Exhibition by the Melbourne architect Joseph Reed and horticulturalist William Sangster. Page 20
• Areas cleared by demolition of temporary buildings from the Exhibitions (including the 1888 Centennial Exhibition), were designed by Hodgkinson, his bailiff Nicholas Bickford, and the later City of Melbourne curator of parks and gardens John Guilfoyle. The Carlton Gardens are now a listed World Heritage Site. • Other notable parks include Princes Park in Maryborough, which was a combined effort by a trio of important landscape designers in Victoria, Clement Hodgkinson, William Guilfoyle and Hugh Linaker. In 1873, Hodkinson accepted the position of Inspector General of Metropolitan Parks and Reserves and a year later he retired. During his retirement he landscaped the Melbourne General Cemetery and in March 1882, joined the Melbourne Public Parks and Gardens Committee.[1] Managing Victoria's Forests During Hodgkinson's final years as Victorian Assistant-Commissioner of Crown Lands and Survey he established a programme of
reservation, regulation, administration and education to control the use of Victoria's forests. The Central Forest Board was established to oversee the entire system on 6 March 1874, with Hodgkinson on the board. Royal Society of Victoria Hodgkinson was involved in what would become the Royal Society of Victoria, which discussed and advised the colonial government on scientific issues. One of his papers discussed at the Philosophical Institute held at the Museum of Natural History was titled On the favourable geological and chemical nature of the principal rocks and soils of Victoria, in reference to the production of ordinary cereals and wine. Other papers presented included on Hydrometry, and the Geology of the Upper Murray area. Historian Georgina Whitehead has argued that his most notable contribution as a member was to argue, along with Secretary for Mines, Robert Brough Smyth, the need to use Australian rather than European calculations of evaporation and precipitation to site Melbourne’s first reservoir, leading the government to choose
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Tributes
Yan Yean. He was Vice-President of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria in 1856 and again in 1858, and Council Member of the Royal Society of Victoria in 1859-1860. In 1860 he was a member of the Royal Society's Exploration Committee which organised the Burke and Wills expedition. Retirement On 11 March 1874 Clement Hodgkinson retired from public service. In 1883 he briefly came out of retirement to sit on a new Committee of Management to inspect the City Gardens he had done so much to create. Street names These were names after him in Clifton Hill, Bendigo, Dromana (see photos of street signs)
• Hodgkinsonia ovatiflora, commonly referred to as Hodgkinsonia or Golden ash was named after Clement Hodgkinson. The species is found from the Hastings River, NSW to Mackay, Qld. It grows in Subtropical, dry and littoral rainforest, and also open forest. • In 1858 John Hardy named Olinda creek after Alice Olinda Hodgkinson, the daughter of Clement Hodgkinson. Subsequently the suburb of Olinda was named after the creek. • Wright, R., (2002), ‘Hodgkinson, Clement, in R. Aitken and M. Looker (eds), Oxford Companion to Australian Gardens, South Melbourne, Oxford University Press, p. 306. • Whitehead, G., (2008), ‘The influence of environmental thought in Melbourne’s nineteenth-century public gardens’, Australian Garden History, 20 (1), pp. 10-17 • Andrew Saniga ‘Making Landscape Architecture in Australia’, Melbourne University
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External Links: • Explorer and surveyor, 1818-1893 (http:// www.users.bigpond.com/nqsearch/ famhist/famous.html#CH) • Hodgkinsonia ovaiflora (http://brirain.webcentral.com.au/ database/Hodg.ovtiflora.htm) • Burke and Wills Web;RSV Exploration Committee (http:// www.burkeandwills.netau/Royal Society/exploration.committee.htm) • H. W. Nunn. “Hodgkinson, Clement (1818-1983) (http.// www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/ A040453b.htm) • ISV Traverse articles in December 1968 and March 1969 by R. A. Patterson, B.A. (Note this paper used these 2 articles and added to them.)
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WILLIAM NAPIER CAMERON 27/05/1940 – 27/09/2023 Nephew of prominent Australian artist Napier Waller, Bill was the son of Robert Cameron and Coral Waller and one of four children and grew up in Ormond and later Montrose, where his father was Postmaster and Bill felt attached to the area throughout his life. He was involved in sports, playing tennis and in the Kilsyth Football Club. Bill married Judy in 1965 and soon had two daughters, Lisa and Karen and who grew up in Glen Waverley which was filled with fun activities and sports. Their Summer holidays were spent traipsing around Victoria in a bright orange Holden Kingswood, towing the caravan. In fact Bill was an enthusiast for all outdoor activities, loved animals and had a dry and wicked sense of humour. All this time Bill was studying for various diplomas and working at RMIT. Surveying was a wonderful profession for Bill, as it allowed him to spend lots of time outdoors and adventuring, including bush-bashing with survey equipment along the NSW-Vic border in East Gippsland. In 1983, he trekked to Everest base camp and went to India and in subsequent years he made many overseas trips including to Alaska, the Inca trail in Peru, Easter Island and several European trips. Bill discovered surveying when the local surveyor D. H. Oliver came over for long Page 22
lunches with Bill's dad, discussing the family property development. Unfortunately these pleasant lunches were not part of Bill's normal working day when he joined Surveyor Oliver as an indentured pupil in 1958; at the then princely sum of £7 per week. Prior to 1966 and the introduction of decimal currency, Bill had to deal with pennies, ha’pennies , threepences, sixpences, shillings, two-bobs and tenquid notes. As an articled pupil, he was equally familiar with chains, links, acres, roods and perches, feet, inches, 1/4 inches, tenths of a foot and the rest. His training under Mr Oliver gave Bill some admirable traits; survey equipment always ready in the boot of his car, including “old pegs found” for those intractable surveys; ability to add long lists of numbers, particularly useful at restaurants for apportioning costs; and of course, slope corrections – “square the slope, add half and that's the correction per hundred” – often shouted to students in the field struggling with calculators and cosines. Three months National Service interrupted Bill's surveying career in 1959. This included six weeks basic military training at Puckapunyal Army Camp with a further six weeks with the Australian Survey & Signals Corps at Balcombe Army Camp on the Mornington Peninsula; two weeks at a survey camp; and parades at barracks in Powlett Street, East Melbourne. It was through his connection with the Army Reserve, following National Service, that he met (Captain) Peter F. Davies who immediately recognised the potential in young corporal Cameron. Bill was licensed in 1964 after completing the old Surveyor's Board Examinations that also included practical examination in Astronomy (observations at night at the intersection of Punt Road and Swan Street), and Levelling and Traversing around the nine-hole golf course at Studley Park, Kew. Bill is still blaming the golfers for his less than brilliant levelling misclose. In 1966, Bill left the employ of Oliver
& Adamson (Graeme Adamson having joined Dave Oliver in partnership) and joined the Melbourne & Metropolitan Board of Works (MMBW). It was while Bill was working for the Board that he heard about some part-time lecturing work at the RMIT; and on making enquiries, he was interviewed by the Head of the Surveying Department, R. James Love, on Friday afternoon and gave his first lecture at the Villa Alba (at Studley Park, Kew) on the following Monday evening. Jim Love obviously recognised talent when he saw it! And of course having his Army Reserve Captain, P. F. Davies, as Jim's right-hand-man was no hindrance and a four decade career at RMIT began. The Surveying Department, established by Jim Love in 1954, prospered under his direction in the 1970's and Bill advanced his education, completing the Associateship Diploma in Surveying (1974), the Bachelor of Applied Science (Surveying) in 1975, Associateship Diploma of Cartography in 1975 and the Diploma of Education (Tertiary) at Monash Uni in 1979. Bill’s thorough preparation of detailed notes, extensive practical sessions and his diligent attention to marking and feedback will be forever remembered by his students and remain a source of inspiration. Some of his students have gone on to teach and while it is hard to know exactly how many, Bill has probably been involved in teaching surveying to more than 2000 students and RMIT, the ISV and surveyors across the state and beyond will remain in his debt. Fellow of the Institution of Surveyors Victoria and outstanding teacher of Surveying at RMIT for over forty years 1966 – 2010, he will be missed and out thoughts are with his family, including his daughters Lisa and Karen and his 5 grandchildren.
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